100 Things That Make Me Happy Besides Money

They’re beautiful. They’re so expressive. I could stare into them, laugh with them, cry with them forever.

I’m into honesty. I know that I’m not funny. When I try, it usually fails. Miserably.
As a teacher, I never know if my students are laughing because my joke was actually funny or if it’s just because I’m the teacher and they earn brownie points by laughing. I hope it’s the former.
I even have a [...]

I’ve almost become addicted to it. It all started with StumbleUpon and me stumbling upon LifeOrganizers.com. I started leaving the site up in my browser at home. I’d read a few articles everyday.
And it infected me. Slowly at first, but now, two years later, organizing and maintaining that organization has become a part of my [...]

Ahhh… is there any safer, more comfortable place? I submit that there is not.
Sometimes we sleep facing each other, just holding hands. And that is quite wonderful. But what I really truly love is when we “spoon,” with his arms wrapped around me, his breath tickling the hair on the back of my neck, and [...]

I grew up in Tornado Alley, so I got to see great storms every spring. Mom had the misfortune to have experienced a terrible storm and ensuing flood in Kansas City, so she would always retreat to the basement and encourage us to do the same. But I have always loved the light show.
I love [...]

I remember liking to pop pimples when I was in high school, but I thought it was totally weird. I thought I was the only one. Then I got to college and discovered that my roommates also liked to pop pimples. I wasn’t too weird!
I finally felt totally normal with this little personal care fascination [...]

Okay, I know this one isn’t as picturesque and touching as some of the other items on my list, but I wrote my 100 Things list honestly, so “farts” it is.
“Ladies” don’t like farts (or burps), and neither do “moms.” I don’t think I was raised to be a True Lady, but if Moms don’t [...]

I’m not talking about the laugh he gives 90% of the time, but that laugh from something deeply hilarious to him. I first fell in love with it after we got married. I would be in the “office” (which was an oversized TV tray next to our bed) working while Rob watched TV in [...]

MMMmmm, uni-balls on Moleskine.
I found uni-ball Visions in high school, and they’ve been my favorites ever since. The ink flows consistently and no matter which color you use, the color is dark and strong: I prefer the green for grading, the black, blue, orange, or red for making notes, and the purple for personal fun. [...]

Speaking of making mouths happy, I love the flavor combination of peanut butter and chocolate. Reese’s Cups, Reese’s Pieces, you name it. And one day at Andy’s, I was hit by what I now recognize as a stroke of genius: order a chocolate concrete with peanut butter mixed in. Orgasm in my mouth.